US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Sept. 16 for "Decision support for trip planning based on energy requirements" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,503, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Decision support for trip planning based on energy requirements" was invented by Jason Meyer Quint (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Kok Wei Koh (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various disclosed embodiments include systems, vehicles, and methods for providing decision support to a person planning to make a trip in a vehicle. In an illustrative embodiment, a computing device has computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions configured to cause the computing device to identify a current travel capability for the vehicle bas...